Climate Change and Intergenerational Equity and Ethics from Jennifer Marlow on Vimeo.

Please watch this Three Degrees Conference video on the intergenerational ethics of climate change. Stephen Gardiner and Carolyn Raffesnperger present their ideas for why and how to protect the rights of future generations from climate harms.

The Three Degrees Conference was co-organized by two law students, Jeni Barcelos and Jen Marlow, at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. (May 28-29, 2009.) threedegreesconference.org

The conference brought together leading world scholars to emphasize and leverage the linkages between climate change and human rights. The objective of the conference was to push the future direction of international climate policy toward climate adaptation, particularly by developing creative, interdisciplinary strategies for helping people burdened by climate impacts adapt to changes and survive the threat of those changes to their basic human rights to food, health, security, culture, and justice.